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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 59

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  5. Secundary Oualities.
  6. 5. 22. Thave, in Wtiat just soes betore, becn engaged in PhyTICa
  7. Finguiries a little Carther than, perhraps, I intended. Bur it beins necessa-
  8. rr, Eomatie the Nature ot Senlation a litele understood; and to inalce the
  9. difference between the ualities in Bodies, and the Ideas produced by them
  10. inthe Mind, to bc dictincly conceived, rithout which it rere impossible
  11. to discourse intellisibly ol them: I hope, IMall be parcloned this litrle
  12. Fxcursion into Natural Philosophr, it beins necestary in our present Fn.
  13. quirr, to distinguis the primary, aud real Qualities ol Bodies, Wrhicharc
  14. alvars in them, (viz. Solidier, Extension, Firure, Number, and Motion,
  15. Or Rest, and are lometimes perceired by us, viz. Wrhen the Bodies they
  16. are in, are bis enoush linsls to be discerned) tromi those secundary and
  17. imposted Qualities, Which are but the Porvers of several Combinations of
  18. choleprimary ones, irtien they operate, Withour beins distinctly discer-
  19. Bed; Whereby re also mas come to Hnow wrhat ideas are, and irtrat are
  20. noc Relemblances of somethins realls existins in the Bodies, We denomi
  21. Rate From FHeM.
  22. 5. 23. The Zualicies, then chat are in in Bodies righuly considered, are
  23. ef Three sorts:
  24. First, THe Bulk, Ficure, Number, Sitvarion, and Morion, or Rest oF
  25. their Colid Parts; these are in them, whether e perceire them or no; and
  26. When thes are oF that sizc, that we can discorer them, re have by these
  27. an Idea oF chething, as it is in it selE, as is plain in artificial thinss.
  28. These I CaII primary Oualities.
  29. Secondir, The Pover that is in any Body, hy Reason oF its insensible
  30. primary Oualities, to operate alter a peculiar manner on arr oE our Senses,
  31. and chereby produce in us che different Ldeas ot several Colours, Sounds,
  32. Smells, Palts, (50. Thele are usualr calsed sensible Oualities.
  33. Thiralr, The Pover that is in any BodY, By Reason of the particulap
  34. Constitution of irs primary Oualities, ro makce lueh a chanse in the Bulk,
  35. Fieure, Texture, and Motion of another Body, a5 to makce it operate ori
  36. our senses, difterently trom wrhat it did betore. Thus the Sun has a POW
  37. er to makre Wax wrhite, and Fire to malie Lead Auid.
  38. The First of these, as has been Caid, Pthink, may be properly called re-
  39. al. Orixinal, er primary Qualities, Decause ther are in the things chem-
  40. selves, Wrhrecher they are perceired or no: and upon their difterent Modi-
  41. fications it is, that the secundarr ualities depend.
  42. The orher ero, are only Porvers to act disterentr upon octier things,
  43. rhich Porvers retule from the ditterent Modisications ol chole primary
  44. Oualities.
  45. 5. 24. Burchoush these dvo later forts of Qualities, are Povers barely,
  46. and nochins but Povers, relatine to several other Bodies, and resulting
  47. rom the different Modifications of the Original Qualities; vet they arc
  48. generally ocherrrise thoushE OF. FOr the Second sort, viz. The POWerS
  49. to procuce sereral Sdeas in usby our Senles, are looke d upon as reat Ouali-
  50. ries, in the thines thus affectins us: Bue Zhe Third sort are calld and e-
  51. steeme dbarely Povers. V. e. the Ldea OF FICaL, Or LighF, Which e receive
  52. Dy our Fiyes, or touch trom the sun, are commonty chouont reat Ouali-
  53. ties, exiltins in the sun, and somethins more than barely Povers in it
  54. But wrhen e consider the Sun, in reserence to Wax, Which it melts, Or
  55. blanches, e look uxon the Whitenels and Softnels produced inthe Wax
  56. not as Qualities in che sun, bur P. Hects produced By Povers in ic: WhilAt
  57. re
  58. F

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 59. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0075?run=74